Episode 113 Bonus: Lydia Millet on Having a Career Outside of Writing

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Episode 113 Bonus: Lydia Millet on Having a Career Outside of Writing

Christie Aschwanden

Jun 07, 2024

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Why is getting older great for writing? In this bonus episode, we speak with fiction writer, editor and memoirist Lydia Millet about why she prefers to have a career outside of writing, dancing wildly, the importance of taking it slow, and much more.

Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections. Her newest book is a memoir, We …

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Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker.

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